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20 May 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Special Ass{stant te the 000

FROM: : dackson R. Horton
Chtef, Domestic Collection Divisfon
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SUBJECT + SSC Request for Information on(Lykes Brothers
““Steamshtp Company aad Owen Johnson Darnely]

REFERENCE: + Review Staff Memorandum 76-0421/A dated 19 May 1976

‘The Domestic Collection Diviston (9CD) utilizes the/Lykes

Fthtes Steamship Company) primar tly as a source of foreign Tatell {gence
information. Secondarily, 5CO provides, dntroductions for Cover and
Commercial Staff officers to[lykes Srothers/offictals for operational
discuss{ons and, on occaston, obtains assessnent data tykes 27

< Brothers /sources on foreigners of potential operational 4 est.
Correpofdence in the OCD file on this company for the year 1962,

_ 1963 and 1964 was confined ta response military services requests
for the registration of vartous /Lykes | thers) employees {In the |
Interagency Source Register,.and memoranda concerning a proposal to
utilize an anpleyee of[Lykés. Brothers) who was a member of a 1.5;
delegatton to the USSR, for the colléctien of forefgn intelligence |
inforwation on the Soviet Union.

G.
2. DCD. records indicate that(Gven Johnson Darnel1]was cons {dered
& “source lead* ia years orfor to 5 but he was never used as a

sOUres < His file vas routinely destroyed in dune 1971, along with
other files on “source leads” which had been fnactive for five years,

as authorized by Chief, DCD.
fate é, Hoskd

VACKSON R. HORTON

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